27/08/2023

Yesterday, I was reading about the civilizations that evolved in the Middle East. There are millions of surviving clay tablets that are the records of the business dealings of those days. I was amazed that the cuneiform writing inscribed into wet clay could be deciphered and that I could read the "bank account" details of another human who had died four thousand years before I was born. 

These and similar records from Egypt, India and the Far East tell us of the long history of man before Jesus was born.  Ur of the Chaldees had been a Sumerian city for hundreds of years before God's revelation to Abraham. 

I thus have to include within my belief in Father, Son and Holy Ghost, questions about the fate of millions of souls created, as we are, in the Love of God, who have died before the biblical record of revelation begins. 

I am truly disturbed by the thought that God would have created souls whose "being" was only to be damned. Such a "being" could never have the "freedom" which is part of our image and likeness to the Creator nor receive the grace of the Resurrection which is eternally for all.

St Paul, who was similarly disturbed by the idea that any of the chosen people would lose their souls, tells us today "It is impossible to penetrate God's motives and interpret his methods" and he asks"Who could ever know the mind of the Lord?" We can only agree with St Paul and accept Jesus' commissioning of St Peter for " All that exists comes from him; all is for him and to him . To him be glory for ever." Amen.

Dear Lord I cannot hide anything from you. You reveal to me what I need to be able to care for the soul that is my image and likeness of you. I do not see myself as outside of the community you founded on St Peter and know that the true heart of your Church was at the foot of the cross waiting for your corpse to be put into her arms. May Mary and all the Saints support the Church invisible which has been forced out by the worldly corruption within  your foundation on St Peter.